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July 14, 2008, 11:29 pm
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It really makes me wonder if this thing is just something that can be hereditary. I see some people with maybe one person in their family with it and for others it seems like everyone has it (more than 5 in immediate family).

Cancer is known to run in some families. A woman I know said that all the women in her family were all buried with at least one breast gone because breast cancer was so prevalent.

But then again, until this generation, my mother's family didn't have any cancer in it that we knew of and now suddenly there is cancer in many of the young people under fifty.

I really think that there's nothing you can do to make sure you don't get cancer. Half the family was reed thin and three women there got cancer and the other half wasn't and one woman also got it.

My sister hardly ate meat for decades, never smoked, we lived near the ocean so the air is good and she got colon cancer. I'm beginning to think that the only thing you can do is keep a good look out for it so when it does get you, you can catch it early.

The thing I dont understand is sometimes its not just one type of cancer, it could be breast cancer, colon, kidney, mouth, etc. I just dont get it, its like the one thing that can manage to rip apart everything.

I think a lot of it is environmental. Not only the air we breathe, and abstaining from dangerous habits, but even non-organic foods, or poor diet. And then you add in genetic predisposition, and you have it all over the family. But there are many "new" cases of cancer coming up in families; though I think ancestors may have died from it, and they just didn't know that was what they died from!

There are definitely some genetic tendencies towards developing cancer. Cancer can also develop as an artifact of aging.

Yep, if any of your family or relatives have cancer, you will stand a higher chance of getting cancer. I think it is associated with the genes. So get yourself a thorough medical checkup yearly to detect cancer at its earlier stage. My friend just have an operation to remove part of his kidney infected by cancer in the first stage. He said he is lucky to be able to detect it so early.

Cancer does seem to run in my family, well for men anyway. Cancer is my biggest fear after watching my grandfathers and father suffering and dying from this awful disease.